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Asger Petersen from the marshland in the southwestern corner of Denmark has been producing chickens for nearly twenty years. Eight years ago Asger changed to organic with outdoor runs. From consultant to farmer For many years I was a consultant in the Danish poultry industry. My trade was feed formulation. Since I became a poultry farmer myself, I have seen a lot of changes ...

Emmanuel Destrijker from Plessisville, Quebec in Canada, is confident that he made the right choice when buying a DACS ventilation system for his second house for layers. It can be challenging to ventilate properly in a house with cages, but the DACS system has now been in operation for five years and it surely has passed the test. The choice was easy “After five years in ...

My colleague and I visited a mid-sized poultry plant to test the Peracetic Acid (PAA) vapor levels in the air, as requested by the plant’s safety manager due to complaints from workers and interest in using our PAA monitor to help ensure workers are safe. PAA is an extremely effective and necessary biocide used to make sure the food we eat is safe by killing the microorganisms on the meat. ...

The other day I came across an old news article from 2008 about a Dutch energy plant that burns 485,000 tons of poultry litter each year, converting it into renewable electricity. Wow, I thought. That is an old-fashioned way of getting rid of poultry litter – they must be releasing some 14,550 tons nitrogen gas into the atmosphere. All this to produce 270,000 MWh of electricity, 890,000 MWh ...

Jamie Curston from Hooks Drove, Cambridgeshire, England, manages a 500,000 + bird farm equipped with a complete climate solution from DACS. The eight houses were commissioned in October 2014 and have been running flawlessly ever since. Jamie is an experienced manager who has been working in the poultry business for the last 12 years. For the first time on a farm equipped with a ventilation ...

Erwin Nijssen from Grashoek in The Netherlands has been a poultry farmer all his life. Virtually, he has been working with poultry ever since he started walking. Truly a very skilled poultry farmer, who knows the industry inside out. The in-depth knowledge has made him capable of expanding his business in a highly competitive market. Today, Erwin Nijssen has five houses. - All five houses lie ...

Volodymyr Taratunskiy and his family from the village Kyrnasivka in the Vinnitsa region in Ukraine has been in the poultry business for 20 years. They produce and sell breeders and chicken. - It is a tough and volatile market, and the only thing I can do is to stay competitive. I always look for the best possible investments and I constantly try to optimize my business, Volodymyr Taratunskiy ...

Background: A poultry plant in the South of England processes up to 100,000 birds per week. The company operates an Activated Sludge plant followed by a Rotating Biological Contactor the whole system being required to produce effluent ammonia of 20 mg/l. Whilst the treatment plant was able to reach this standard when it was first installed, the success of the company meant that more and more ...

This facility processes, seasons, cooks, and flash-freezes poultry products and wanted to increase their production. The existing wastewater system could not meet the discharge requirements to the local POTW (city) and more stringent limits were imposed as a condition of their expansion. The facility was looking at a tremendous capital improvement cost to increase the size of their wastewater ...

Microbial mineralization of urea and uric acid in poultry litter results in the production of ammonia, which can lead to decreased poultry performance, malodorous emissions, and loss of poultry litter value as a fertilizer. Despite the fact that this is a microbial process, little is known about how the microbial populations, especially ammonia-producing (ureolytic) organisms in poultry litter, ...

What’s Ethanol? Ethanol is an alcohol-based alternative fuel produced from crops such as corn, barley, and wheat or from 'cellulosic biomass' such as trees and grasses. Brazil and the US together account for nearly 70% of global ethanol production. Virtually all US ethanol requirements today are satisfied by domestic production. Today All gasoline vehicles are capable of operating on ...